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The Odessa File (1974)

The Odessa File (1974)

Thriller

Hamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever.

Release Date: 1974, October 17
Directors: Ronald Neame
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Production: John Woolf Productions, John Woolf Productions, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Domino Productions, Domino Productions, Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH, Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Jon Voight, Wolfgang Lukschy, Cyril Shaps, Shmuel Rodensky, Maria Schell, Hannes Messemer, Til Kiwe, Garfield Morgan, Günter Meisner, Michael Gahr, Henning Schlüter

Overview:

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

Keywords:

based on novel or book revenge suicide assassin espionage investigation mass murder nazi concentration camp ss (nazi schutzstaffel) war crimes execution war criminal